Nationwide Calendar
Organizations whose work is related to SIDS, SUID, infant mortality, safe sleep, and goals that are important to the SIDS/ID community are invited to submit events to be included on the Nationwide Calendar by sending us an email.
Reproductive Health 2009 is a partnership among the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, the Planned Parenthood® Federation of America National Medical Committee, and the Society of Family Planning. This is the 5th joint annual meeting of these three organizations, taking place in Los Angeles, CA.
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September 30-October 3, 2009
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This Symposium will explore the present state of quality initiatives to prevent preterm birth and develop an agenda for action to decrease the rate of those preterm births that are not inevitable or medically necessary. The Symposium will bring together a multidisciplinary group of health care practitioners, health insurers, policy makers, health purchasers, regulators and concerned citizens to discuss quality improvement as an essential component in the strategy to prevent prematurity, promote health and save costs. It will be a forum where experts and stakeholders can:
- Share ideas and challenges
- Describe model programs that have successfully improved the nature and quality of patient care and services targeted to prematurity prevention
- Recommend quality improvement action plans
This event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, VA, and has been organized by March of Dimes in collaboration with American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Nurse-Midwives, and Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses.
Registration will be available as of April 1, 2009 on
the Symposia web site.
This year's event will take place in Vienna (Tysons Corner), Virginia. Please monitor the
web site for further information.
This year's event will take place in Providence, Rhode Island. Please monitor the web site for further information.
Please monitor the
web site for further information.
This assembly offers 200 CME opportunities for family physicians. Improve your patient care, save time and money, and start building your medical home. Celebrate the proud heritage of family medicine in one of America’s most historic and diverse cities, Boston, Massachussetts.
This event will take place at the Tremont Hotel of Baltimore, MD. Check back soon for more details!
This event will take place at Waukesha County Technical College in Wisconsin. Explore current research, evidence based and promising practices providing an opportunity to move from knowledge to practice, using the Life Course perspective as a framework to improve the health of women, infants, children and their partners.
The ICEA 2009 convention is designed for childbirth,
perinatal fitness and parent educators, doulas, nurses
of all educational backgrounds, midwives, physicians,
consumers, other health care professionals, and those
who work with women in any childbirth-related field.
The program offers a variety of topics related to education,
health care and counseling needs of childbearing
families. This event will take place at the Oklahoma City Renaissance Hotel.
The theme of this year's NCE is "Pediatric Heroes: Champions for Children," and the special pre-conference Peds 21 Topic for October 16 will be "Focus on Foster Care." This event will take place at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC.
This year’s conference will be held at the Ritz Carlton (South Beach), Miami, Florida! This year’s NPHIC conference attendees will participate in a special risk communication training by renowned expert Peter Sandman. Also, the CDC’s Barbara Reynolds will lead a training in “RiskSmart™,” a program designed to enhance organizational credibility and stakeholder trust.
The California Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Program invites you to join us on October 20, 2009 for SIDS: A Journey of Hope, the 29th Annual California SIDS Program Fall Conference. This year's event has been planned in collaboration with the Northern California Regional SIDS Council and the California Department of Public Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Division. The conference will take place at the California Department of Health Services East End Complex located at 1500 Capitol Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95814.
October 19, 2009: Pre-Conference Events
October 20, 2009: Conference
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This conference will bring together clinical, social, programmatic, epidemiological and policy experts at the national, state, and local levels to present best practices, promising new interventions, community engagement models, and policy interventions to improve healthy birth outcomes, and methods to address racial and ethnic disparities that affect birth outcomes. Conference attendees will better understand the link between prematurity and birth defects, why improved preconception and interconception care programs must be implemented in the community, and the major factors leading to healthy birth outcomes. This event will take place at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
This event will take place at the Sheraton Hotel, Philadelphia, PA. This year's theme is: "An Invitation to Innovation".
This workshop is open to anyone who wants to start their own Share Group, hospital chaplains, social workers, counselors, nurses, and bereaved parents. The Sharing and Caring workshop is a weekend-long intensive training that gives anyone who works with grieving families the tools they need to work with families effectively, run support groups, and gain the support of their hospital staff. This event will take place at the St. Charles Convention Center of St. Charles, MO.
The APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world, attracting more than 13,000 national and international physicians, administrators, nurses, educators, researchers, epidemiologists, and related health specialists. APHA's meeting program addresses current and emerging health science, policy, and practice issues in an effort to prevent disease and promote health. APHA has a world of public health in store for you. This year's meeting will be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA.
Registration will open June 1, 2009.
This year's theme is "Family Centered Care", featuring keynote speaker Beverly Johnson. The event will take place at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.
Download the conference information
here. You can use the
Early Registration Form to sign up today.
The early childhood education community is gathering in Washington D.C.! More than 20,000 early childhood professionals from around the world attend the NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo to discuss the everyday issues of working with young children and families.
Register and
arrange housing online. This year's event will take place at Walter E. Washington Convention Center, located at 801 Mount Vernon Pl. NW Washington, DC.
The National Training Institute is a comprehensive and multidisciplinary conference that focuses on cutting-edge research, best practices, and policy issues for infants, toddlers and families. The NTI attracts multidisciplinary professionals working in mental health, early intervention, early care and education, child welfare, family support, social services, and health care. This event will take place in Dallas, Texas.
December 3, 2009 (Pre-Institute Events)
December 4-6, 2009 (Institute)
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Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology (MCH EPI) conference organizers invite you to join MCH professionals in sharing experiences, enhancing knowledge, and generating new ideas for improved MCH data use and informed policymaking. This event will take place at the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay, Tampa, Florida.
December 7-8, 2009 (Pre-Conference Trainings)
December 9-11, 2009 (Conference)
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This event will take place at the Hilton Chicago.
This event will take place at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort of
Phoenix, AZ.
Moving Ahead Together: Celebrating the Legacy, Shaping the Future of Maternal and Child Health. This event will take place at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor, MD. The conference program will be available in late summer 2009. To make hotel reservations, call 301-965-2000, or visit the
Gaylord Hotels web site.
The theme for this year's event is: "Fulfilling Our Vision: Healthy Babies from the Start." The theme encompasses several areas that are related to NHSA's vision of reducing infant mortality nationwide and improving perinatal health disparities, such as preconception and interconception health care and services, perinatal and postpartum depression, and male involvement and fatherhood initiatives. Presenters will explore these areas and others, and identify tools that are needed to ensure that all families, regardless of socio-economic status, ethnicity, race or cultural background, have the best chance at a healthy life.
2010 Spring Conference Tracks:
- Mental Health
- The Life-Course Perspective
- Advocacy and Health Policy
- Family Involvement
- Research & Evaluation (e.g. Community-based Participatory Research)
- Women, Child & Adolescent Health
This year's conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
"Death, Dying and Bereavement: It's All About the Story." This event will take place at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri.
This is an excellent continuing education opportunity for nurse practitioners. This year's event will be held at the Hyatt Regency of Chicago, IL. More details coming soon!
Cribs for Kids will be hosting their second national conference in Pittsburgh, at the Omni William Penn Hotel. A Call for Abstracts will be forthcoming. This conference will feature a special track on fundraising which will give you the tools to raise money to sustain your program through these difficult financial times. Please make plans to attend. More details coming soon!
ACOG's 58th Annual Clinical Meeting (ACM) will be held in San Francisco, CA. The Scientific Program will be outstanding with more innovative and hands-on sessions. The Educational Program has been taken to the next level to reflect the changing environment of women's heath care.
2010 AWHONN Convention - Sharing Science, Finding Solutions
The 2010 AWHONN Program Committee seeks volunteer presenters for the Annual Convention to be held June 12-16, 2010 in Nashville, TN. AWHONN is the leading professional association for nurses who specialize in the care of women and newborns. Our members include neonatal nurses, women’s health nurses, OB-GYN and labor and delivery nurses, nurse researchers and educators, nurse executives and managers, childbirth educators, clinical nurse specialists, nurse practitioners and nurse-midwives. Our national conference draws over 3,000 attendees of whom 72% have 15 or more years of experience and 38% have a masters degree or higher.
This conference is currently seeking abstracts. Abstracts may only be submitted electronically through the online abstract submission system. Paper and email submissions are not accepted. The system will not accept abstracts after 11:59 PM EST on 8-17-09. Abstracts are being accepted for: Specialty Papers, Research and Innovative Papers & Posters, Case Study Presentations (Paper or Poster). Click
here to submit your abstract. This event will take place in Nashville, Tennessee.
The 2010 ISA conference will be held jointly with the International Society for the Study and Prevention of Infant Deaths (ISPID) in Australia in October 2010. The conference will focus on Connecting for life in preventing stillbirth and infant death and ensuring optimal bereavement support for families. The Conference themes will encompass the problems faced by the diverse populations of the Australasian region. The Conference Committee will announce the “east coast” conference destination and the main conference themes at the Oslo Conference in November. Hosting of the conference will be shared across The Australia and New Zealand Stillbirth Alliance and member organisations: Bonnie Babes Foundation Inc., SANDS Australia and New Zealand, Stillbirth Foundation Australia and SIDS and Kids (SIDS and Kids are also hosting the ISPID component).
The 2010 Conference Committee welcomes you to Connect for life with friends and colleagues (new and old) “downunder” in 2010. We promise great Aussie hospitality, warm weather, Koala cuddling and a range of parochial culinary delights and an opportunity to build on the work underway in making a difference to the global challenge of stillbirth and infant death.
